Cutter Wood the recipient of a 2018 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a former Visiting Scholar at the University of Louisville.

Joshua Wheeler is the author of Acid West and co-editor of We Might as Well Call It the Lyric Essay. He teaches creative writing at LSU.

Sarah Viren is the author of Naming the Bigger Lie and MINE, winner of the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Prize. She teaches creative writing at ASU.

Ryan Van Meter is the author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now, a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco.

Jessie van Eerden is a novelist and essayist, author of The Long Weeping, Call It Horses, and Glorybound. She directs the MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan.

Rebecca Sheir, award-winning radio journalist and host of Metro Connection on WAMU, creates stories for NPR programs like All Things Considered and Marketplace.

Kristen Radtke, author of Seek You and Imagine Wanting Only This, is the New York editor for The Believer. Her work appears in The New Yorker and Tin House.

John Price, author of Daddy Long Legs and Man Killed by Pheasant, teaches Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska and won the Orion Readers’ Choice Award.

Clinton Crockett Peters, author of Pandora's Garden, teaches Creative Writing at Berry College. His essays have appeared in Orion, Texas Monthly, and Electric Literature.

Jen Percy, author of Demon Camp, is a contributing editor at The New Republic and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Winner of multiple prestigious awards.

Angela Pelster, author of Limber, teaches creative writing at Hamline University. Her work has appeared in Granta, Gettysburg Review, and more.

Elena Passarello, winner of the 2015 Whiting Award, teaches creative writing at Oregon State University and is the author of Animals Strike Curious Poses.